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47 posts todayRT @Glinner: UK feminists lead the world in not taking shit from men. https://t.co/w99j6m...
RT @Glinner: UK feminists lead the world in not taking shit from men. https://t.co/w99j6m...
Looking forward to reading the news in full tomorrow. FiLiA supports moves to safeguard Women only spaces and protect sex based rights. Full statement to follow. ...
Looking forward to reading the news in full tomorrow. FiLiA supports moves to safeguard Women only spaces and protect sex based rights. Full statement to follow. https://t.co/g23Zsl...
RT @FiLiA_charity: 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA Meets: Jo Bartosch - feminist writer and campaigner, Founder and Director the of anti-pornography think tank Click ...
FiLiA Meets: Jo Bartosch - Click Off — FiLiA
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) PANDEMICS: MISOGYNIST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS AND COVID-19 By Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald https://t.co/KMoCvX... https://t.co/1E0 ...
RT @AlinejadMasih: This is Iran in the 21st century where women can be stopped in the street for riding bicycles. I received this video from inside Iran from these girls. See how they're challenging their oppressors. #MyCameraIsMyWeapon campaign has ...
Accusations that we are funded by the religious right are laughable. We are a Women-led volunteer organisation. For 8 years we have worked bloody hard to put on an annual Feminist conference, often using our own money. Become a Friend of FiLiA ...
RT @UKWILPF: Join our #ConnectSeries Initial Session! In the 1st session, we will reflect on the history of WILPF and present our 3 major campaigns: #Disarmament and #FeministEconomics, #WomenPeaceandSecur... and #Environment To sign up, please ...
RT @CCriadoPerez: I can’t believe I need to say this. I can’t believe I‘m SCARED of saying this. In 2020. But. Don’t send women rape & death threats & don’t tell women to suck your dick. No caveats. No ifs & buts. She never deserves it. ...
I often imagine a parallel world where those fighting for trans rights stood against male violence rather than against Women. But fighting against patriarchy is hard work. Maintaining the status quo is so much easier. Sisterhood and Solidarity with ...
*** 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 *** On the 8th anniversary of the UK signing the Istanbul Convention, Director of IC Change Robyn Boosey talks about why ratifying the Convention could be so life-changing for many women in the UK. https://t.co/8DMkMt...
FiLiA meets: Robin Boosey — FiLiA
RT @MForstater: This is shameful @UN_Women https://t.co/n0svRV...
FiLiA has recently connected with our Sisters from Russia. They have inspired us with their activism around Femicide and have been translating key texts into Russian. Their latest is the essay by @jk_rowling Sisterhood and Solidarity ...
Дж. К. Роулинг о причинах своих высказываний по вопросам пола и гендера - Московский Женский Музей
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FiLiA - Building Sisterhood and Solidarity - Amplifying the Voices of Women - Defending Women's Human Rights Join us at https://t.co/jN98L8... https://t.co/xKKqxj...
Huge thanks to all the Women who have contributed their words to the FiLiA blog space. Sisterhood and Solidarity https://t.co/7ACj1S... https://t.co/rcMv5u...
Over 80 FiLiA podcasts to listen to. With enormous thanks to the FiLiA volunteers and speakers who all gift their time to make this possible. Sisterhood and Solidarity https://t.co/4zhd0p... https://t.co/F1KJI5...
“Women’s experiences of policing and criminalization and resistance [have] become unworthy of historical study or mention, particularly when those writing our histories are also men.” By @KeishaBlain https://t.co/frldKT...
A short history of black women and police violence
'We know that the route to the Americas is riddled and lined with our bones. We were there when they inspected us, bargained over us, raped us and stole our children from us. We were angry then, but we chose to survive.' @kayewhitehead ...
“The guidance we launched recently aims to unlock capacity at housing providers and refuges nationwide and make sure nobody who needs to leave an unsafe home is left stranded." https://t.co/MsLXFZ...
Domestic abuse commissioner calls on housing providers for help
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'While I’d experienced street harassment and fear, I had little sense of how deep, how systemic, and how geographical it all was.' https://t.co/D2UQT3...
Is it time to build feminist cities?
"They come here expecting to be taken care of, but we don't have any food for them." A staff member at the Soloy Maternity Centre had the same complaint: "There should be enough food available for the pregnant women coming here.” #Panama ...
Pregnant indigenous women in Panama face COVID-19 fears, lack of transport - Panama
'I am so sick of seeing the same patterns repeated and basic mistakes being made at the expense of women’s lives. And, I can assure you these are not “isolated incidents” on a micro or macro level.' says @laurarichards99 https://t.co/1DYGav...
I've spent 25 years working on the cases of women murdered by abusers - and it makes me sick
“The new government must ensure that the 2021 review of the abortion law focuses on enhancing access to abortion care so that no one is left behind.” #Ireland https://t.co/buHHWf...
Last year 375 women from Republic had abortions in England and Wales
'Women are often the ones who have to pick-up the collateral consequences of state-sanctioned violence. They take on greater responsibility for caregiving grieving families and displaced children and shoulder a greater burden of economic ...
The collateral consequences of state-sanctioned police violence for women
“Women are viewed as working to supplement the income of male breadwinners, so even if they lose their jobs men are viewed as their safety net,” #Japan https://t.co/C0Fuzp...
Women bear brunt of Japan's recession as pandemic unravels Abe's 'Womenomics' | The Japan Times
“I put it to you that the increase in femicide is because men don’t understand why we won’t take their assault on our bodies quietly. We dare claim our bodies, that our lives are ours. It goes against the nature they’re socialized to.” @simphiwedana ...
Simphiwe Dana: ‘Growing up sexual assault was seen as some sort of game'
'Malta’s blanket ban on abortion made international news with anonymous testimonies of Maltese women who had abortions; interviews with local pro-choice NGOs' #Malta https://t.co/iuPniN...
Maltese MEP Comes Out As ‘Leaning Pro-Choice’ And Says Legalising Abortion Is ‘Inevitable’
'Santelices, had spoken definitely of the “good side” of Pinochet’s regimen, under which thousands of women were put through torture and almost all female political prisoners endured sexual violence.' #Chile https://t.co/YVbRHo...
Chilean feminists reject new Women and Gender minister - Chile News | Breaking News, Views, Analysis
'‘If I would have to sum up Rojava in the way people here do, it would have to be Jin, Jiyan, Azadi. It means Women, Life, Freedom in Kurdish; the three most important pillars of this revolution.’ says @lapinesque #Rojava https://t.co/M04lQA...
Volunteer in Syrian state of Rojava says men are more respectful here than in UK
The Sun newspaper slammed for platforming JK Rowling's abusive ex-husband “Newspapers should not give a platform to perpetrators of abuse to justify, minimise or victim blame. Full stop.” https://t.co/oyAphi... https://t.co/VlkuJ8...